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- While high ISO is often the culprit of noise,…many cameras will also introduce noise…when you shoot a dark image.…Now, that noise can come out at any ISO setting,…particularly in the rich, shadowy areas.…Let's take a look at a darker photo…and really see what's happening here.…In this case, I'll press command plus to zoom in…and we're going to go to 100 percent.…Now, this image is clean, relatively speaking,…but if you look at some of the details there,…you can see that there's a lot of noise…in the background and in some of the shadowy areas.…

This is particularly true as we move…and take a look at the background texture.…There's a whole lot of noise back there.…Now, you don't have to get rid of that entirely.…After all, we're not trying to simulate film stocks here.…And even film had grain and texture.…But we can clean that up quite a bit.…Where it particularly bothers me…is right here on the skin tones.…It's really easy to see at 300 percent magnification.…Look at all that noise through the body tone there.…

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Learn how to enhance your images with Perfectly Clear. This plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom analyzes photos and makes corrections by combining image analysis and customized user settings. In this course, Rich Harrington shows how to enhance photos and fix common problems for a wide range of images using Perfectly Clear's presets and manual adjustment tools. Start watching to learn how to correct exposure, enhance color, sharpen details, retouch portraits, and develop raw files. Plus, get an inside look at the Lucid standalone apps, which harness the power of Perfectly Clear's one-click image adjustments for iOS devices and Windows and Mac computers.